A fire erupted on a family farm in west Texas this week, killing about 18,000 cows that were worth millions of dollars.
The blaze happened Monday at South Fork Dairy near Dimmitt, Texas. A fire crew rescued one employee who was trapped inside a farm facility. No other employees were injured,Fire crew worked late into the night to contain the blaze at South Fork Dairy near Dimmitt, Texas. The incident claimed the lives of roughly 18,000 cows, local officials said. The incident marks the nation's deadliest fire for cows since at least 2013, the Animal Welfare Institute in Washington, D.C., told CBS MoneyWatch.
Castro County judge Mandy Gfeller, the top executive in the county, estimated South Fork's losses in the tens of millions of dollars, USA Today. Each cow was worth about $2,000, and the 18,000 who were killed made up 90% of the farm's total herd, according to the outlet. "There's some that survived, there's some that are probably injured to the point where they'll have to be destroyed," Castro County Sheriff Sal Rivera told KFDA.
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